Vatukoula

Vatukoula is a gold mining settlement in Fiji, 9 km inland from the Town of Tavua on Viti Levu, the main Fiji island home to the country wide capital Suva and its worldwide airport Nadi.

The Emperor Mines Limited shut down on 5 December 2006 due to low charge of gold and the high degree of capital required to sustain the mining operation. It offered its operations to Westech International, a personal organization primarily based in Australia which, in flip, offered the mine to River Diamonds Plc later renamed Vatukoula Gold Mines Plc, a Chinese corporation. The mine's closure happened with truely no warning, leaving 1,760 former employees, their households, nearby organizations, and local officers to cope with the surprising disappearance in their livelihoods without the gain of enormous social planning. The severity of their situation is apparent from a Submission to the EGM Closure Negotiating Committee in help of the Vatukoula Communities, dated 19 January 2007.